Aves, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay territory, south-eastern Australia.docVIP

Check List 5(3): 479–488, 2009. ISSN: 1809-127X LISTS OF SPECIES Aves, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay territory, south-eastern Australia David B. Lindenmayer 1 Christopher MacGregor 1 Darren Brown 1 Rebecca Montague-Drake 1 Mason Crane 1 Damian Michael 1 Bruce D. Lindenmayer 2 1 Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Canberra, ACT., 0200. Australia. E-mail: david.lindenmayer@.au 2 19 Monkman St., Chapman, ACT, 2611. Abstract: A large-scale, long-term study is being conducted to describe the bird assemblages inhabiting a 6500 ha area at Booderee National Park, south-eastern Australia. In this paper, we provide a list of birds recorded within rainforest, forest, woodland, shrubland, heathland and sedgeland during surveys conducted each spring between 2003 and 2007. Of particular interest was the contrast between the birds of sites burned in a wildfire in 2003 and sites that remained unburned. We recorded a total of 103 species from 35 families. We found that after the major fire, the vast majority of individual species and the bird assemblage per se in most vegetation types recovered within two years. Exceptions occurred in structurally simple vegetation types such as sedgeland and wet heathland in which reduced levels of species had not returned to pre-fire (2003) levels by 2007. Introduction Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts). Booderee National Park is located 200 km south of Sydney and 20 km south of the city of Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales, south-eastern Australia (approximate midpoint is 35°10 S latitude, 150° 40 E longitude). The area has a temperate maritime climate with an average rainfall of 1150 mm per annum spread relatively evenly over the year. Two key factors influencing the distribution and abundance of vertebrates are vegetation type (Andersen e